There is no difference anyway ... you still need to have a shell to see that prompt. Besides, every daemon that is started from within init.d starts off as a shell, just look at the first line of any init.d script "#!/bin/sh". So without a shell your computer running *NIX based OS'es will be pretty useless.
Jobst -----Original Message----- From: Jake Anderson [mailto:ya...@vapourforge.com] Sent: Monday, 31 August 2009 13:49 To: Jobst Schmalenbach; slug@slug.org.au Subject: Re: [SLUG] 40 Years of Unix On 31/08/09 13:04, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > AFAIK no *NIX based computer would run without one ... as soon as the kernel spawns init from there on its all shells .... > > So demise, ahh, no. > > > jobst > > There is no reason init needs to be a (textual) shell. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
